Lord, Grant your servant the peace that passes all understanding. Allow your servant to cast his burdens upon You who will gladly bear them. Grant your servant the grace to bear this Cross, and to remember that even St. Paul was was afflicted with a thorn in the flesh. Lord, if it be thy will, please bring your servant healing from this distress. Lord, grant your servant the wisdom to seek spiritual and medical help, and to trust that this help is from You.

"In the name of Mary, Lord have mercy."

Selam

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""Love is a dangerous thing. It will crush you if you trust it. But without it you can never be whole. Love crucifies, but love saves. We will either be saved together with love, or damned alone without it." Selam, +GMK+

Did you talk to a doctor about these attacks? You know, sometimes very simple, common medicine can help. I am a university teacher and I know that some of my students have anxiety attacks during exams, or the day before an exam. Some of these students, after seeing a doctor, began to take a minimal dose of propranolol (10 mg) once a day, and the attacks ceased. (Propranolol is a beta-blocker, one of the most common blood pressure medications.) It's not a universal remedy, but I know for sure that it helped some people. Do talk to health care professionals!

Take deep breaths while praying Lord have mercy! In a rhythmic fashion. I read somewhere that anxiety is brought on by a lack of oxygen and subconsciously people with anxiety hold there breath.

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Excellence of character, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. Now it is a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

Conquer evil men by your gentle kindness, and make zealous men wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion. With the afflicted be afflicted in mind. Love all men, but keep distant from all men.—St. Isaac of Syria

THANK YOU everyone for your caring, kind replies and prayers. It really helps. I' m not just saying so.

Today went a quite a bit better, as I took some time to breathe and go a little easier on myself. I will seek some help though, medical and spiritual. I'm still convinced God is best medicine.. personally.. but am open to whatever I need to get myself heading in the right direction. Peace..

Only pray for me, that God would give me both inward and outward strength, that I may not only speak, but truly will; and that I may not merely be called a Christian, but really be found to be one. St.Ignatius of Antioch.Epistle to the Romans.